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ASIC has clarified why the cost of sitting the financial adviser exam has increased by more than 50% this year to $1,500....

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Enrolments for the first financial adviser exam of 2023 open today with licensees applying for a new adviser urged to act quickly....

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Financial planning

Over half of advisers sitting the November financial adviser exam passed the test, according to latest ASIC figures....

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There are 16 days until Quality of Advice Review deadline this month, so Money Management has crunched the numbers on the current state of the adviser landscape....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has shared information about how the adviser exam will be run in 2023 when it moves to being primarily new entrants....

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Financial planning

Today is the final day for candidates who need to pass by 1 October to register for the last sittings of the financial adviser exam....

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Financial planning

Compassion should be given to those advisers who have not yet passed the financial adviser exam, according to the AFA’s Phil Anderson, rather than condemnation....

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Half of advisers who have not passed the financial advice exam still intend to stay in the industry with the most-common role as a mentor of new advisers or in a ‘general...

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Over 1,800 advisers have graduated from postgraduate qualifications in 2020 and 2021, according to Kaplan Professional, an industry record....

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Shadow minister for financial services Stephen Jones would support changes to the financial adviser exam so that Professional Year advisers could choose to sit an exam ba...

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Financial planning

The percentage of candidates who passed February’s financial adviser exam, the first one under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has fallen to 32.4%. ...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers can use 2022 as a year of opportunity to build and make their business more efficient given there will be no major regulatory changes over the next yea...

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Financial planning

The cost to sit the financial adviser exam will be higher than initial estimates as it moves to being run by the corporate regulator and any Standard 3 amendment responsi...

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The pathway will allow financial advisers who have 10 or more years of full-time experience in the last 12 years to only complete a tertiary level unit on the code of eth...

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Those who have not passed the adviser exam and are ineligible for the extension have until the end of the year to come off the Financial Adviser Register to avoid being c...

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